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Lifeguards’ Journey within Kowloon Walled City
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9 pieces in variable dimensions
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Acrylic on canvas
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2022
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Under the Omicron turmoil, lots of harsh anti-pandemic measures make the citizens from this metropolitan feel suffocated. The artist admires the time-transcendence mystery from the “940920”movie. Through the expressive method of Walter Benjamin’s “remembrance and reminiscence”, the lifeguards with tanned skins, who suffer from the closure of swimming pools during the pandemic, are resettled to the Kowloon Walled City between the 1970s and 1993. Let these lifeguards enjoy the emancipation of their personalities inside the pub of Kwong Ming Road within the “triple non-administrative realm”. Let them search for the nourishment of love. Let them enjoy how to serve as a “Homecoming Dad”.
Artist Introduction
Vincent Lee Kwun-leung graduated from HKBU Academy of Visual Arts. He operates an independent painting studio at the Unit 1515 of Kwai Shing Industrial Building (Phase 2) in Kwai Hing. He serves as a creative art tutor for the community art courses at YWCA. Now, he is studying an MA Fine Arts programme at CUHK. Vincent Lee previously served as an Art Officer at Art of Nature International Company Limited and an art-jamming tutor at Galerie Le Createur. He has also taught Children Chinese Ink Painting Course at Sing Wai Piano Company Limited and Comic Drawing Workshop at Pope Paul VI College.